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#204705 - 07/07/05 05:27 AM
Re: Multiple explosions in London
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Rick Donaldson
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Ok, found a timeline now. Also, I have BBC news, live via internet covering this by voice now. Kings Cross is under a major rescue operation. Twenty plus ambulances and dozens of rescue personnel at this point. No word on precisely what sort of rescue is happening. -- Rick
LONDON BLASTS TIMELINE
Sky News ^ | July 7, 2005 | Unknown
08.49 - Emergency services called to London's Liverpool Street Station after reports of an explosion on the Metropolitan Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate. Reported as "some kind of power surge".
08.50 - Police called to Aldgate station, east London.
09.22 - King's Cross, Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations cleared.
09.31 - The incident caused major disruption to the entire network with stations across the capital being closed.
09.33 - London Underground said that there has been "another incident at Edgware Road" station in north west London.
09.53 - Mainline train company First Great Western said its services into London's Paddington station were terminating at Reading in Berkshire because of the Underground crisis.
10.00 - The National Grid, which supplies power to the Underground, said there had beenno problems with its system this morning which could have contributed to the incidents.
10.13 - Union officials said their sources had told them there had been at least one explosive device on the Underground. One explosion happened at Edgware Road and there were suggestions of two other explosions at King's Cross and Aldgate.
10.14 - Reports of a bus being ripped apart in an explosion in central London.
10.19 - Mainline services were being halted short of London. The Silverlink company, which normally operates into Euston station, was terminating trains at Watford Junction in Hertfordshire.
10.32 - Mainline London to Scotland train company GNER said it did not expect its East Coast Main Line services to run as far as London at any time today.
11.02 - Home Secretary Charles Clarke confirmed that there had been "terrible injuries" in the explosions across London.
11.24 - Mobile networks report delays for people trying to get through to friends and relatives, after a surge in the volume of calls.
11.30 - Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said: "We are not aware of any warning at the moment. We have concluded that this is a co-ordinated attack."
11.51 - St Mary's Hospital said it had received four critically injured patients, eight seriously hurt and 14 with minor injuries so far. It could confirm no deaths and had treated no children.
12.00 - Tony Blair says: "It is reasonably clear that there have been a series of terrorist attacks in London."
12.01 - A spokeswoman for University College Hospital in central London, near the scene of the Russell Square bus blast, said: "We have started to receive casualties but we cannot say how many."
12.05 - Reports that the Stansted Express rail service is suspended, although flights are operating normally at Stansted airport in Essex.
12.16 - Emergency services called to Leicester Square underground station, a spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said.
12.21 - More than 100 casualties and one of the dead were taken to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Three double-decker buses loaded with casualties had brought the injured to the hospital.
12.36 - A British Transport Police spokeswoman said it had no knowledge of any reports of an explosion at Leicester Square.
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#204707 - 07/07/05 05:28 AM
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Rick Donaldson
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No suggestion of local attacks: Downer (Australia)
news.com.au ^ | 7th July 2005
THERE was nothing to suggest British posts in Australia would be targeted after a series of bomb blasts in the centre of London, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said tonight.
Near simultaneous explosions rocked the London Tube and three double-decker buses during today's morning rush hour (about 1800 AEST).
Police said two people were killed in one of the explosions at Aldgate East underground station.
There were also reports of scores of injuries along with fears of a co-ordinated terror attack.
The city's entire Underground train network was shut down as a chaotic security alert gripped the capital.
In Sydney tonight, Mr Downer said the situation around British posts in Australia was being monitored but there was nothing to suggest they would be targeted.
"We have increased security in recent years for British diplomats and particularly the British consulates and the British High Commission in Canberra," he said.
"We don't have any information that there's likely to be any attack on them but obviously this is something we monitor very closely.
"It's something our intelligence agencies and police do the whole time."
Mr Downer also said he had contacted his daughter, Olivia, who was in London.
"After I checked with my department - I first wanted to ensure they were setting up the appropriate emergency response - when I had a spare moment from that, I rang my daughter myself on her mobile phone and she answered it," he said.
Mr Downer also said Australia had already begun to respond to the situation in London.
"The national counter-terrorism group has already met and is still meeting, I suspect, now, but is making an assessment of the situation," he said.
"But, obviously, from our point of view we are almost entirely dependent on getting information from the British authorities."
The Federal Government's first priority was to ensure the safety of the 300,000 Australians living in England, Mr Downer said.
"Our immediate concern is of course for Australians," he said.
"There will be many Australians in London and the Australian High Commission is doing its best to find out if any Australians have been affected by these explosions."
Mr Downer said there was no information to suggest that any Australians had been hurt but he warned it was "in the early stages".
"We don't know what the situation will be as time goes on,'' he said.
Concerned friends and family members of people living in the UK should try to contact them directly, he said.
"People should be able to do that through phone and emails," he said.
"That will be the quickest and most effective way to get in touch."
British authorities had been keeping their Australian counterparts fully briefed on developments in London, he said.
But Australia would not be establishing any extra security measures here in response to the blasts.
"We haven't decided to do that at this stage. We don't have any information that would lead us to draw that conclusion, but ... this does remind us all that you just can't be complacent," he said.
"We've ... made the point over and over again to people that there isn't any need to panic, there isn't any need to overreact, but it is important to be alert."
He said Australian authorities were well equipped to deal with any attack here.
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#204711 - 07/07/05 05:32 AM
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Rick Donaldson
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London explosions: Blair statement
Times Online ^ | July 7, 2005 | Unknown
Prime Minister Tony Blair gave this statement from the G8 summit in Gleneagles at midday, three hours after the blasts hit London
"It's reasonably clear that there have been a series of terrorist attacks in london. There are obviously casualties both people who have died, people seriously injured, and our thoughts and prayers of course are with the victims and their families.
"It’s my intention to leave the G8 within the next couple of hours and go down to London and get a report face to face with the police and the emergency services and the ministers that have been dealing with this, and then to return later this evening.
"It is the will of the leaders of the G8 however, that the meeting should continue in my absence, that we should continue to discuss the issues that we were going to discuss, and reach the conclusions, which we were going to reach.
"Each of the countries round that table have some experience of the effects of terrorism and all the leaders as they will indicate a little bit later, share our complete resolution to defeat this terrorism. It is particularly barbaric that this has happened on the day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long-term problems of climate change in the environment.
"Just as this is recently clear that this a terrorist attack or a series of terrorist attacks it is also reasonably clear that it is designed and aimed to coincide with the opening of the G8. There will be time to talk later about this.
"It is important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country, and in other civilised nations throughout the world. Thank you."
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